Ford Pinto Ethical Issues

A Brief Introduction on the Ford Case

When a decision is made in a business organization, the internal stakeholders, the organization, and the external stakeholders are either affected positively and negatively. In "a who-why situation", two important questions are asked. The first question is who does the decision affect? The second question raised is how can the decision made, made to be ethical. In this case, Ford decided not to repair the defective fuel tank that posed a great danger to the people driving or riding in the Pinto (Leggett, 1999). In this analysis, if the fuel tank was not repaired and an explosion occurred in case the Pinto was involved in a collision, the organization would have observed losses and the shareholders. Other people who would be affected if the fuel explodes will be the customers who ride the Ford Pinto vehicles. The

The first step that Ford would have undertaken was to ask the cars back and redesign the faulty fuel tanks and ensure that the new fuel tanks did not pose any danger to the customers or other people (Hartley, 2012). The second action was to make the matter publicly so as to ensure that the drivers could be aware of the danger posed to them and take action to prevent the danger from occurring.

References

Hartley, C. (2012). Ford pinto: An ethical analysis. Retrieved February 17, 2017, from http://the-business-scholar.blogspot.com/2014/06/ford-pinto-ethical-analysis.html

Leggett, C. (1999). The Ford Pinto Case: The Valuation of Life As It Applies To the Negligence-Efficiency Argument. Retrieved February 17, 2017, from http://users.wfu.edu/palmitar/Law%26Valuation/Papers/1999/Leggett-pinto.html

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